Flight Path Waypoint Setting with Non-Settable Range Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing techniques for setting an aircraft's flight path are complex and do not efficiently allow users to set waypoints considering the aircraft's performance and surrounding environment.
Innovation Solution
A flight path setting apparatus and method that includes a display unit, selector, range calculator, and display controller to display and calculate a non-settable range around each waypoint, allowing users to easily select and move waypoints while ensuring they are outside this range, using a touch panel and storage for aircraft performance data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional waypoint setting techniques are used, then flight path can be set, but the operation becomes complex and difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates and displays non-settable ranges before the user sets waypoints. By showing restricted areas in advance based on aircraft performance and environment, the system guides users to set waypoints outside these ranges, simplifying the operation while ensuring safety constraints are met.
Solution Approach 2:
The non-settable range display acts as an intermediary between the user and the flight path setting process. It provides visual feedback about constrained areas, mediating the user's waypoint selection to ensure it complies with aircraft performance limitations without requiring complex manual calculations or checks.
2Manufacturing precision
If waypoint settings ignore aircraft performance and environment, then setting is simpler, but accuracy and safety decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The range calculator pre-computes non-settable ranges by reading aircraft performance data from storage and calculating restricted areas based on aircraft capabilities and environmental factors. This preliminary calculation ensures accuracy requirements are met before the user performs waypoint setting, eliminating the need for users to manually consider complex performance parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically calculates and updates non-settable ranges based on aircraft performance data stored in memory. The range calculator autonomously processes performance parameters and environmental conditions to generate accurate restricted areas, providing self-service functionality that ensures precision without increasing operational complexity for the user.
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AI summary
A flight path setting apparatus includes a display unit, a selector, a range calculator, and a display controller. The display unit displays a flight path of an aircraft. The flight path includes a plurality of points. The selector selects a first point on the basis of an operation performed by a user. The first point is any one of the points displayed by the display unit. The range calculator calculates a non-settable range on the basis of a flight performance and a surrounding environment of the aircraft. The non-settable range is a region that is around the first point and in which a second point is not settable. The second point is subsequent to the first point on the flight path. The display controller causes the display unit to display the non-settable range that relates to the first point and is calculated by the range calculator.